NewEgg also has a .ca for Canada... checked there and they listed a bunch of older Pioneer's but no IDE Pioneer's are currently available.

eBay has some but, asking way too much in some cases which is why I was looking as some $25 Asus/Sony/LG drives still available. But, like I said, went to check compatibility and since my computer is an older model, most reports posts are from 2007-2009 so, those drives are no longer for sale.

Any drive for the original Mac Pro's will do it, as Apple kept the slower IDE bus for the optical drive until 2008. For instance, you can buy a Blu-ray (also reads/burns everything from CDs to DVDs double layer...) internal drive made by MCE for the Mac Pro (2006-2008).

I don't know if a SATA to ATA adapter works for an optical drive, but I've read most SATA PCI cards won't do it. Granted, its a different thing, but I would be cautious with that.

I'll avoid the SATA adapter... for the cost of the adapter and shipping on top of the IDE drive, be as cheap or cheaper just to grab a DVR-110D or similar off eBay.

Now that the PPC is no longer supported, and with that a lack of things like Flash updates, Adobe CS# compatibility, etc... I don't want to put anymore money into the computer than I have to. Soon as I'm working again I'll be a newer/used Intel system.

Or if you want to, if you can get your hands on a SATA card like i did (got a Sonnet SATA card for $0) you can plug SATA hard drives and DVD roms into it, and if and when PATA drives are pulled from the market, you can use SATA's.

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